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- ↑ America's Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax, Volume X Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ America's Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax, Volume X
- ↑ DISCOGRAPHY | Rodney Waschka II
- ↑ Amazon.com: The Virtuoso in the Computer Age, Vol.2: Jon Appleton,Larry Austin,Chris Chafe,Gareth Loy,Larry Polansky,Neil B. Rolnick,Rodney II Waschka,Ron Fink,Adam Wodnicki: Music
